The Lower Mississippi Valley Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

by Moore, Clarence B.; Morse, Phyllis A.; Morse, Dan F.

• ISBN13: 9780817309497
• ISBN10: 0817309497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication C. B. Moore's investigations of the Lower Mississippi Valley are here collected in a one-volume facsimile edition. Like many other natural scientists from the Victorian era, Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852-1917) lived several lives-adventurer, paper company executive, archaeologist; however, Moore is chiefly remembered for the twenty-five years he spent investigating and documenting archaeological sites along every navigable waterway in the southeastern United States. Moore's surveys were and are impressive, and he earned lasting respect from archaeological researchers in the South by publishing, mostly at his own expense, all of the data he recovered. This volume includes works that describe data from Moore's expeditions that were key to the early recognition and preservation of major archaeological sites-Toltec, Parkin, Mound City, and Wicklife, among them-in the lower Mississippi River Valley. This and companion volumes stand today as the defining database for every area in which he worked.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Note on This Edition	ix
INTRODUCTION	1	(14)
Dan F. Morse
Phyllis A. Morse
Appendix: Sites Visited by C. B. Moore	15	(6)
References Cited	21	(4)
SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER	25	(120)
ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER [FROM THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST REVISITED]	145	(24)
Aboriginal Sites Near Golden Lake. Site at Evadale	164	(1)
Site Near Bassett	164	(1)
Mounds near Transylvania	165	(4)
CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI	169	(124)
I. Mounds and Cemeteries of the Lower Arkansas River	171	(86)
II. Mounds of the Lower Yazoo and Lower Sunflower Rivers, Mississippi	257	(28)
III. The Blum Mounds, Mississippi	285	(8)
ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS	293	(130)
Indexes	423
Introduction	423	(3)
Some Aboriginal Sites on Mississippi River	426	(4)
Additional Investigation on Mississippi River	430	(1)
[From The Northwest Florida Coast Revisited]	431	(1)
Certain Mounds of Arkansas and Mississippi	432	(5)
Antiquities of the St. Francis, White, and Black Rivers, Arkansas	437